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February 28, 2007
NO-PARK SLOPE
1 HOUR TO FIND SPOT IN B'KLYN NABE
NY Post
By Rich Calder
You think traffic will be bad if Atlantic Yards gets built. What about now?
Nearly half the cars clogging Park Slope's streets at any given time are going nowhere - except in quest of a parking spot, a new study shows.
And drivers spend an average of half an hour to an hour trying to find a spot on the Brooklyn neighborhood's brownstone-lined streets, according to the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, which conducted the study.
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Councilman David Yassky (D-Brooklyn) cautioned that parking in Park Slope will only get worse once the $4 billion Atlantic Yards project - which includes an NBA arena and 16 skyscrapers - is built between 2009 and 2017 in neighboring Prospect Heights.
NoLandGrab: David Yassky can complain all he wants about traffic and Atlantic Yards — the historical 22-acre mega-project has been moving forward because of the failure of many key elected officials, like himself, to make any significant changes to the project, or to try to stop it.
The failure to implement a comprehensive traffic plan for Central Brooklyn not only haunts local residents, it also negatively impacts regional commercial transportation. Elected officials get credit for that as well.
Posted by lumi at February 28, 2007 7:35 AM